Our Team

Becky LipeOffice Manager

Becky Lipe serves Pritchard Osborne as the director of its small business accounting services group. Becky is a paraprofessional accountant with 30 years of experience working with the firm’s small business clients. She is the firm’s primary resource in the areas of human resources payments and benefits, payroll, and sales tax, and unemployment compliance issues. She also serves as the firm’s controller and is responsible for its internal accounting and budgeting processes.

Becky’s industry experience ranges from agribusiness to personal services to retail businesses. She is experienced in the use of a number of small business accounting software programs and has trained a variety of users in the use of QuickBooks and similar software applications. Becky has directed the implementation of over 100 initial accounting systems and trained as many business owners in their first accounting and tax compliance responsibilities.

Becky’s expertise includes the sales, payroll and labor issues encountered by business owners operating in the two states of Illinois and Missouri.

Becky’s human resource benefits work includes the establishment and administration of a variety of medical reimbursement, premium only, and cafeteria benefit plans. Her experience also includes the creation of human resource policies and bonus plans, and the establishment of employee manuals for HR policy establishment and administration.

Becky is a resident of Hillsboro, Illinois and is active in the First Baptist Church of Hillsboro and loves Italian food.